This Tiny Chip is POWERFUL - PS2, Switch, 3DS, Wii, and GameCube Emulation 

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Please no 366s

Not looking forward to the price tags

🤦‍♂️No. We are looking forward to the review and tests of the Pentium 8505 and Celeron 7305.

@@richarddukard8989 Ye this soc is like $200 on its own. Even with discounts, handhelds with this at the current time would probably cost over $350. Which means its pointless because you can buy a ayn odin pro for less than that. And a steam deck for a little more

Don't forget the new Aya neo and ayn 300 handhelds, unless an android handheld with this costed less than 200 i don't think it would sell well.

TBH I already sick with many Emulation reviewer who keep saying this is powerful to play anything, this is probably just me but I more than happy with my cheap phone who can play up to NDS and PSP.

For those that want a more pocketable portable, and don't mind the premium, it wouldn't be bad

@@bhirawamaylana466 What do you mean? Don't you like a device that can play up to ps2? But anyway it's about a person needs; if you care for psp and less, that's really just good on you! But then we had devices that could play those games for a very long time already, so it's only natural that the further we go, the more powerful chips are going to be

I don't get it. There are plenty of Galaxy Note 10s or comparable used phones on ebay for $200. Pair it with one of those Razer controllers, and you have a snapdragon 855 portable handheld thats separate from your daily driver phone (idk why people are so obsessed with having a dedicated device)

3ds emulator Citra is still work in progress. Oh man i never had 3ds because it is not available in my country so I play on my mobile via Citra emulator. The emulator run fines on some games but my phone got so much hotter other emulators are not get hot like this. On other side Nintendo ds emulator drastic is so much optimised that I can play any games on it. When i had 1 gb ram phone in 2014 i run drastic emulator games smoothly than ppsspp emulator.

I'll add that game to my testing set.

@@TakiUdon YES! Thank you so much.

It should run at full speed.

The switch is over 4 years old shut up about it. It was outdated on the cpu when it came out.

@@shlokshah5379 Me on my way to find out who asked

the switch uses a 5 year old arm tegra SOC. these other arm chips don't actually have to do much emulation, just have a decent gpu and a driver that works.

@@PaulSpades I didn't think about that aspect; i.e., since they both use ARM architecture, the emulation layer won't be nearly as "thick" as, say, if a switch emu were running on an x86-based machine. If they ever have these or Khadas boards (another high performance RockChip based SBC you've probably heard of) back in stock, I'm definitely using one for my portable emulation handheld. Let's hope that these aren't more small companies which fall victim to the supply chain shortage and go out of business.

It's going to be a while.

@ Not AN AMD Nor Nvidia nor Intel fan If you can get one in your country, it sure is.

you would think but not really just remember the emulation performance this is demonstrating is akin to the performance you would get in a high end pentium or core 2 duo CPU as ps2 does not need much performance it just needs the right kind of CPU which is where cpus differ you might take a arm CPU and say a intel CPU and think of the specs are alike but arm is a different CPU and has different features for emulation these matter the biggest difference I can tell you about that effects emulation is opengl x86 and x64 architecture cpus have full opengl which many emulators leverage arm series cpus have opengl ES which doesn't run as well and doesn't have the full features of open fl also things like vulkan and other technologies make a difference finally developer support makes a huge difference almost everything you can think of in emulation has x64 and 86 builds for it but the embedded systems not so much and with so many boards and chips available getting anyone to develop for them is hard raspberry pi did well because of its high adoption so it gave a clear platform to target comparatively odroid xu4 had very little and it wasn't until various teams worked on it that its power began to demonstrate itself and infact once team ORA got some emu devs to make builds tailored for it that its true power became evident with its performance doubling and almost tripling in some cases so what is on paper for specs is almost meaningless

If you want an affordable device would recommend current handheld consoles such as the Odin, steam deck. I have the aya neo which is more expensive but runs ps2 games perfectly using the pscx2 emulator

Good Question, What about a custom Steam Deck 2 chip that runs Android

That's from my capture card, not the device.

@@TakiUdon maybe get a new capture card?

@@celozzip maybe believe him?

never fully trust reviewers.

I know I speak for a few, but I also find it rough to hear audio hitching when describing emulation performance as flawless, it gives an uncertainty. I would advice to get a better capture method or at the very least inform the viewer of this problem before the review starts.

there’s no universal device he just photoshopped a switch lite

@@trillqueen thanks, I thought so and it seemed a switch lite, but with psp and the other stuff aside and all the handhelds, I thought it could have been a kinda knock-off or similar of a switch

this board has an ARM CPU, right? so ... wine won't help with PC games because PC games are made for x86 CPUs and wine does not do CPU emulation ... and because of the massive amound of performce required to emulate moderately modern CPUs, it is safe to assume that using an actual emulator like box86 or qemu will only be good for some really old PC games or new games with VERY low system requirements ... so ... nope ... this SBC is not a steam deck competitor ... not even close ... maybe someone might turn this SBC into something that is a kickass ARM gaming device in its own right

@@KenjiUmino I think you missed a step. Box 86 and Box 64 are compatibility layers, to x86 and ARM what Wine is to Windows and Linux. They convert many x86 system calls into ones that an ARM CPU can understand and maintain the native Open GL and Vulkan libraries present on both platforms to keep performance surprisingly comparable in things like games. In and of itself, Wine wouldn't be terribly useful on an ARM device, other than maybe running Windows on ARM programs on an ARM Linux installation, but you can use Wine in a Box 64 wrapper for instance to play a Windows game in Linux (via wine) and then translate that to an ARM compatible executable via Box 64. It's a super cool technology and a very fun rabbit hole to go down. :D

@@novantha1 github page says box86 IS an emulator ... it talks about all the stuff other emulators talk about ... how the dynamic recompiler is faster than the interpreter and so on ... so that is plain old emulation for the CPU side at least ... for the GPU side you might get away with handing vulkan calls straight to the host OS but if the software does not use vulkan, you'll have to convert GL to GL ES by whatever means necessary ... some form of compatibility layer might do without causing too much overhead ... you know ... it has all been tried before and done before and said before and I heard all this talk about how this new emulator X is so much more faster and more better and more efficient than emulator Y but in the end they are ALL the same. you can't run x86 code on an ARM computer without a noticeable performance hit - you. just. can't.

@@KenjiUmino Regarding OpenGL at least, you often don't need an OpenGL -> OpenGL ES conversion as the Panfrost drivers, for instance, will cover OpenGL support for many ARM boards currently in active use, meaning you can take out another major barrier to gaming on an ARM SBC. As for your other points, you might say that you can't run games well on an ARM board, but I see people doing it regularly, and even get away with it myself often enough. I'm not sure what your point is; I'm happy with the gaming performance on these boards and am excited about them as an enthusiast. What's not to love?

Citra mmj

MMJ (build was from two weeks back).

Ah i see, thank you for the answers because Official version seems to have a hard time running any games i give to it

Wont be in retro handhelds for years. This soc costs the same as an AYN ODin pro

SMG = wiimote shake x/y/z all bound to L2 or R2.

@@TakiUdon how about the pointer? is it working or are you using Skip EFB access in hacks settings to run the game at full speed?

This soc costs almost as much as a AYN Odin pro dude

@@Robstrap worth it for me I don’t want anything larger than my RG351MP and I love that device so much

@@julianputnam8290 agreed the 351MP has the absolute perfect form factor for handhelds. Unfortunate that Anbernic seems to be leaving it behind for those really odd design choices.

I just hope Anbernic makes that Android Handheld I'm waiting for. Personally upscaling on any Handheld without a Widescreen is pointless to me. Upscaling is mostly for if you want to play the games on your TV or Computer Screen.

Odin Lite if you never use the fan. If you are talking about devices that don't even include a fan at all, you'd be looking at something like the RP2+.

Nice! I have an aya neo handheld pc with: pc games, ps2, GameCube/wii, Dreamcast, PSP, ds, gba emulators installed 😏😏

@@therunawaykid6523 nice and how is it overall?

@@hinfinity really good in my opinion it’s so cool having a handheld device that can play pc games and many emulators. Even has a dock available so you can play it on a television also in my opinion the seven inch screen and size of the device is perfect as it’s about the same size as my og switch with the hori split con controllers attached. Also what I love is that it has Xbox style controls so most games are already setup plus it has a game record feature so you can record gameplay and take screenshots which is really useful

@@therunawaykid6523 ok I might have to look into that thanks 🙏🏾

This build of Dolphin would give better performance to you on the SD if there was a port. The closest thing you could get would be to try the ishiiruka dolphin build.

Did you find a solution this? I have been wanting to get emulation working on this for a while now. I swapped the OS to the station M3 OS and that worked well to make the android experience less clunky. I still have not been able to get something like batocera linux or a decent front end to work in android to use this thing. It's been sitting in a drawer almost since when I bought it a year ago.

Sei que a Orange pi5 está com um ótimo preço e vem com o rk3588s

That's what I was hoping for, but there were no fan variables that I could change when I was poking around in terminal with root.

No

@@bulletpunch9317 But at this point you also have texture packs for Dreamcast, N64, PS1, PS2, PSP, 3DS. Not sure about current support on Android emulators though.